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Connect and monitor feature flag changes in DataDog

· 3 min read
Endre Toth
Large scale enterprise development expert. The father of our SDKs and infrastructure.
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A updated version of this blog post is available here.

Nowadays, thanks to modern continuous delivery tools, many software development processes make it easy to deliver multiple releases per week. It is often common for several scheduled releases per week to be released. The usual practice is that during the release process, DevOps guys keep their eyes on the monitoring dashboard, and if they find any anomalies, they roll back the version.

But what happens if someone changes a feature flag's value (release toggles) in the production environment?

Release Toggles allow incomplete and un-tested code paths to be shipped to production as latent code which may never be turned on. https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html

DevOps are notified that a certain threshold has been reached for the production environment and that when they open a related metric they see something similar:

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ConfigCat’s Security Framework

· 5 min read
Csilla Kisfaludi
Tech support by day, movie addict by night, crazy cat lady 24/7.

Nowadays, almost each and every business uses some sort of web application, so cyberattacks are becoming a daily struggle for huge enterprises as well as for small businesses. It’s not enough for programmers to build an application that looks great and works smoothly. Many consumers are getting aware of the need for security in the applications they are using.

As ConfigCat is a Software as a Service business with applications running in the cloud, we take security as seriously as reliability. Here are the security measures we take to ensure that we deliver a secure application.

ConfigCat's security framework title

Feature flags for NuxtJS

· One min read
Gergely Sinka
"Not all code paths return a value." - VS

A new ConfigCat JavaScript SDK supporting apps using Server-Side Rendering (SSR) frameworks like NuxtJS.

Solved XMLHttpRequest is not defined issue

It is forked from the standard ConfigCat JavaScript SDK and of course open source. It is a bit bigger as a package since instead of using the standard XMLHttpRequest we have added Axios Http Client to avoid XMLHttpRequest is not defined like issues.

ConfigCat in GitHubEducation's Teacher Toolbox

· One min read
Gergely Sinka
"Not all code paths return a value." - VS

Moving forward with our partnership with @GitHubEducation we have introduced a new plan customized for teachers as part of the GitHub Teachers Toolbox.

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ConfigCat Teachers Plan

You get unlimited ConfigCat Products to make sure there is one for every class, lab and research group each with unlimited Team Members. Also you can add 3 different Permission Groups in every Product to be able to grant proper access rights for everyone.

ConfigCat's fair pricing policy

· 3 min read
Peter Csajtai
Sometimes you just need to make your own dependency injection framework.

The main idea about our pricing is that our prices are fixed, deterministic and there are no hidden fees. Also we offer a forever free plan without requiring any commitment or credit card information. All features are available in all plans - even the free - helping the evaluation process of our customers.

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